Perhaps the most far-reaching damage to the American polity from the Trump era is the final destruction of journalism’s traditional ideals of objectivity and fairness in reporting the news. Writing in City Journal, Martin Gurri argues that the mainstream media have adopted a “post-journalism” business model: acting as unapologetic advocates for the various creeds, dogmas, and ideologies of the left.
Reversing Industrial Suicide
Following the loss of 5 million U.S. industrial jobs from 2000 through 2017, Joel Kotkin in Spiked writes of the growing consensus – alone among Western countries, and despite the U.S. left’s hatred of Donald Trump – to revive America’s industries by “reshoring” manufacturing. Today, writes Kotkin, even some of the famously globalist “tech bros” are opening new facilities back home to manufacture tangible, advanced products. One sign of success: China is measurably bleeding in its manufacturing output.
